my new ‘baby’ …

… THE SONY ERICSSON K700i!
 

my second baby actually. my first baby was the casio exilim EX-Z3.

the previous phone i used was siemens S45. it is a good phone, with lots of features… some of which i have not used them. then why do i need to get a new phone? well, i wanted a camera phone, see. not that i don’t have a camera of course, as i already have my casio digicam. i wanted a camera to be with me all the time, and since i carry the handphone all the time, it is only right to get a camera phone. the camera will be more or less for emergency use only, like when i wanted to take some photos but have no camera with me or when my memory play havoc with me when i’m suppose to bring my casio exilim, i forgot!

intially i started with wanting a camera phone that cost less than RM1K. i asked around in MyPDACafe forum. then i saw the advert in the paper where maxis offered rebate for purchase of certain phones, and was attracted to the sony ericson phones. had a hard time to decided to choose between T630, K500i and K700i. the first 2 are less than RM1K which was my budget. however i was too attracted to the K700i because it had so many features, particularly bluetooth and FM radio! and with so many good words spoken of the K700i from mypdacafe members, i decided to settle on K700i.

i only change phone once, the first was also a siemens (siemens C25). i never like nokia. this will be my third phone. i do realise this K700i is not a new phone, since it was out somewhere august last year, but heck, to me, less than a year is consider new. beside, this phone is still being promoted and advertised – it is advertise currenly on TV. oh, beside, since there ia my SE club online, i’ll be able to get help from there.

how much i get it for? orginally the price was RM1380, and the rebate i got from maxis was RM200, so i thought i could get it for RM1180 but it seemed that the rebate has to follow the orginal price as advertised by maxis i.e. RM1529. therefore RM200 less RM1529 is RM1329. yep, i got it for RM1329… only RM50 less the orginal price, though i use the RM200 rebate voucher.

well the SE K700i is indeed a good powerful features pack phone. huai bin of sixth seal.com had the phone a few months ago, and he did a good review of it complete with lots of pictures here. i’m now still ‘playing’ with my baby to experiment with the features.

coming up next, the third baby i want to join me is the dell axim x50 (or maybe the HP ipaq 4150). hey, maybe if i got lots of angpow money, this baby will be able to join my family as my third baby. 🙂